sage green
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- noun
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verde salvia
- painted sage green
- sage green walls
Feel like if this was in like the nice sage green or even pink or a pattern.
- Feel like if this was in like the nice sage green or even pink or a pattern.
- So we did the khaki, the black and white, the blue, and then the sage green as well.
- It's this lovely cutie little minty minty sage green, mint green.
- It's like pastel pistachio sage green.
Examples
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I like this sage green colour at the moment.
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If they had used medium olive or sage green, it would have been more appealing.
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The living room is painted a soft, muted sage green color that creates a calming atmosphere.
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She chose a sage green dress for the wedding, matching the theme perfectly.
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For a fresh look, consider using sage green accents in your home decor.
Synonyms
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A dull yellowish green like the colour of moss
A pale gray green color that looks like silvery leaves
How Green
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'sage' denotes a muted grey-green shade and 'green' denotes the hue, so 'sage green' straightforwardly denotes a soft, muted greyish-green. This follows normal English color-naming compounding and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
Sage green comes from the leaves of the sage plant, which are a soft, greyish green. Because people named the color after those leaves, sage green now means 'a calm, soft green' used for paint, clothes, and home decoration.